The camera make normal weight look Fat. So these on camera people must wrestle with weight for all of their careers. But Paltrow has no magic secrets to share with The fellow wrestler Winfrey. Are they saying birds are OK for humans to eat because birds are Not Four Legged? This must be the new Hindu influence suggesting it is unacceptable for people to eat Cow meat, which many people are reverently beginning to believe after doing "non-spiritual" Yoga classes. I do not intend to give up the best source of high quality protein available because a Cow God spirit tries to make me feel guilty. Besides the Purple colors of the TCU School of Ranch Management still commands my loyalty much stronger than the Yoga School.

In my unflagging pursuit of the really truly important stuff I can relate to you, via the NY Post, that Paltrow was recently admitted to a NYC hospital after living on lemon flavored bottled water for a week. Scout's honor.

Some people have metabolisms that allow them to eat alot. My great-aunt was thin as a rail, but could put away an astonishing amount of food; same with a coworker who is 4'-11" and same with me until was 25.

On the weekends I try and work out one extra hour on Saturday and Sunday to make up for the extra calories though.

thank you.

There is just no reason to be heavy. We have the tools. Now take action. I am down to 162now. I was at 170 over Christmas which was my heaviest. I am 5"11 so I am happy with my weight now but I can agree with Gwenny 5 pounds can be added in seconds and those 5 pounds can be the death of us.

Starvation dieting is a killer, Titus. If you really truly want to lose weight in a healthy way just cut out the third meal of the day. Have something minimal in the evening to get you through the hunger pang period. Guaranteed safe loss of 5 - 10 pounds in a month.

I looked up some Paltrow pics on google,and now I see that she does have classic eating disorder symptoms. Her control over her normal bodily functions is all will power gone over into self annihilation. Look at her slinky and weak body good today, because she will be dead very soon. It angers me to see these disorders, because suicide is a hostile act.

In my unflagging pursuit of the really truly important stuff I can relate to you, via the NY Post, that Paltrow was recently admitted to a NYC hospital after living on lemon flavored bottled water for a week. Scout's honor.

She was doing some sort of body cleanse.Never listen to actresses about how they lose weight.

Jealous much, Ann? Don't worry, I wouldn't kick you out of bed for a little jiggle when you wiggle. Form follows function, my dear. More of you to love; or, the bigger the cushion the better the pushin'.

Has this woman got any T or A left at all? If not, who cares what her bodyfat percentage is? It must be work, keeping her warm at night (NTTAWWT).

But retract the claws! You're on Oprah's side? Listen to all the other BS she swallows, why not a diet of magic realism? (if I remember that LatAm literary trend's name correctly)

Look at those bags under Oprah's eyes. She is having sleepless nights knowing she put a total boob into power. Not only that, but Obama will never be on her show again. You served your purpose, butterball, be glad to have gotten away without any tire tracks.

I missed the duck fat thing though. Yum, duck fat. The stuff you buy always comes out whiter than mine, but it's all good.

Some years back I saw her Oscar acceptance speech. If they ever give an Oscar for best Oscar acceptance speech, she would win handily. She was lovely and endearing and gracious. She had a movie star's knack of capturing your affections in a moment that holds them for a lifetime. She was really terrific.....Time robs us all but for elite athletes and beautiful women it's grand theft larceny. For them the erosions of time are as sudden and disfiguring as rainfall on a snowman. Under such pressure it's a wonder more of them don't go nuts.....Suppose you told Prince William (no relation) that he could keep all his wealth and status until an unspecied age sometime in his forties. At such time he would have to give up all his wealth and privilege. He would then be sent to a job in the mines and given a council flat in which to live out the rest of his days. Further tell Prince William that there is some unspecified diet that will allow him to keep his position for an extra five years. Then watch Prince William try every crazy diet in the world. It's a fine comedy.

Magazines plan their covers and content a year in advance. It would not be surprising if her weight gain were part of her editorial/business plan. If she loses dramatic amounts through 2009, this will also be good for business.

The story at Oprah.com reveals Gwyn shares an exercise trainer with Madonna.

From my experence, a fat woman, with a normal personality, is very often hiding her sex appeal under the extra weight to avoid sexual advances which she feels she could not handle and also remain married. Then when she makes a decision to divorce, she works and diets the extra weight off in 6months. But if she later choses to remarry, then she may start the cycle over. Women will always remain mysteries coming to us as gifts wrapped for us in designer bodys, colors, and loving souls.

At least from the clip, I don't see what all the fuss is about. If Paltrow said, "massive quantities", I missed it. And anyway, isn't that in the eye of the beholder? She also didn't say she did it all the time.

I actually subscribe to a lot of what she talked about - basically, she eats what she wants and gets rid of the excess via exercise. She doesn't obsess about calories or weigh herself. I don't either - I've been able to watch my mother do that. It's not for me. I pretty much eat what I want, generally not overeating, and exercising.

And finally, she doesn't look overtly underweight, at all - maybe a little on the thin side. There are plenty of actresses that look way worse that that.

Kate Moss used to have fun with this. When asked about her diet she would go on about bacon-wrapped double cheeseburgers or some such, and smoke would begin to pour from all the other women's ears.

I once saw Kate Moss complain about being used as the poster girl for eating disorders. She said she ate normally and that she was naturally that thin. Let's assume that's true (not a good assumption for a known cokehead). Then she's missing the point. The point isn't her thinness; it's that Calvin Klein et. al. chose her (and others like her), an outlier by far in the thin department, as models. In short, it's not about her personally; it's about how her image is used.

Starvation diets (well, diets in which you routinely do not get the amount of calories needed) will prolong your life. That kind of diet turns on a life-prolonging gene, or something like that, just like resveretrol does. Morley Safer told me so -- which surprised me, as I thought he was dead!!

Men grow cold, as girls grow oldAnd we all lose our shape in the endBut square cut or pear shapeThese rocks don't lose their shapeDiamonds are a girl's best friend

She's skinny because she smokes. It's those dam cigarettes, it's always the cigarettes. I never weighed more than 135 pounds until I quit smoking. Before I quit I could eat a Denny's Grand Slam for breakfast, snack during the day on buckeye balls, a bushel of pistachios and a gallon of chocolate chip ice cream but if I didn't eat a decent lunch and dinner then I would lose 5 pounds. Then I quit smoking. Now if I look at a buckeye ball I gain weight. It's the cigarettes.

if I were going to chum around with a celebrity chef, it would have to be Nigella Lawson not that stuffy Mario Batali.

Well, I took a cooking class from Tony Bourdain, not exactly known for his sedate lifestyle. He was asked about some of his former colleagues at Food TV. He disliked Rachael Ray and hates Sandra Lee. He did say that Mario Batali is a party animal that can drink most chefs under the table. Nigella is better looking, though.

(For those not familiar, Bourdain is a celebrity chef that is a former heroin addict. He still drinks a lot and smokes like a chimney. Looks a little like Lou Reed. He's more famous for his memoir of being a chef in NYC than his self-described average cooking skills.)

I'm not exactly leaping to Gwennie's defense, but I suspect the largest part of her "dieting" regimen is pure genetics -- just a damn lucky toss of the cosmic dice.

Coming from a long line of tall skinny folk, I can personally attest to the power of an inherited, calorie burning metabolism. At least till my mid-late 30's when all good things came to an end. I'm 6' 3" and used to max out at 165# soaking wet. Now in my early 40's I'm hanging in there in the 190-95# range. I could easily stand losing 10-15# (all from the middle, unfortunately).

Cut out the pop and the extra piece of cake between meals (or just follow ric's advice to Titus). In the spring and summer I can normally walk that off in 2-3 months. Much too cold for that right now, and I haven't had a ski pass in 15+ years. Now, if I had Madonna's personal trainer running me through the paces, 'twouldn't matter what I ate.

MM, I've no doubt you speak true. (But I still have half of a German Chocolate cake sitting on my kitchen counter...) ;)

Synova, I've always liked the Outhouse Steakhouse billboard ads that said,"Converting vegetarians one steak at a time." Not so much their mid-grade beef, though. If you want to observe a genuine PC, vegan daisy-chain in the wild, click here.

From a purely business perspective (and both women are in show business), talking about weight is a safe topic and one of interest to their audience. The content of the interview is 100 percent predetermined by the Oprah's producers and Paltrow's people. If something goes awry, it will be edited out.

They're not going to talk about investments, their ongoing lawsuits, or the value of their many vacation homes.

The content is all designed to keep the groundlings happy and babbling.

Starvation diets (well, diets in which you routinely do not get the amount of calories needed) will prolong your life.

That is true (at least if you replace "needed" with "wanted.") I think our society's disapproval of fat women and the resulting pressure on women to lower their caloric intake may largely account for the fact that women live longer than men.

You would be how surprised how many people smoke and work out. Weird dichotomy. I see many guys and girls from my gym leave after working out pretty hard and then lighting a cigarette as they head down the street.

It always floors me when I see it but from my experience it is frequent.

Or I have friends that work out and then at night if they go out and drink they smoke as well. Again, very common from what I have seen.

OK, I finally bit. I Googled Gywneth Paltrow weight. Tons of links there, going back years. Apart from all the references to working out two or three hours a day, there's stuff about macrobiotics, paleolithics, various cleanses, various food restrictions & plans, and even (oh, back in 2003 or something) eating naked as a eating control device.

Tell me, how is doing any of those things (except maybe the naked part) not thinking about what you can or can't have? Something doesn't compute there, at least for me.

Love that Outback Steakhouse coaster link. I notice that the original poster later comments on the lack of a healthy option. If I remember right you have to be careful balancing your vegan options to end up with a balanced diet which is not something you have to do with the non-vegan diet. Kinda makes you wonder who had a healthy meal there.

If I remember right you have to be careful balancing your vegan options to end up with a balanced diet which is not something you have to do with the non-vegan diet.

Perhaps most critically, you have to consume B12 supplements or artificially B12-fortified food, or else you will eventually suffer severe and irreversible damage to nerve cells. The only vegan source of B12 is bacterial cultures.

I wonder at what level anyone who chooses the vegan "lifestyle" does so because of the guaranteed conflict it's bound to create. They truly want to be offended. It validates their utter self-absorbtion, IMO.

Consider the cognitive dissonance of a committed vegan (is that vay-gan or vee-gan, btw? ... vay-gahn, perhaps?) making the oh so blithe choice to eat at an Outback Steakhouse. Not Outback Soy-curdhouse, not Outback Macrobiotic-veggiehouse, not Outback Nothing-with-a-face-was-murdered-or-exploited-for-your-dinnerhouse. Outback S-T-E-A-K house. It truly boggles, doesn't it?

I didn't get the sense she was lying. She was conveying to Oprah that she doesn't obsess about food the way Oprah apparently does, and when she (Gweneth -- that name sounds Welsh to me) does concern herself about food, thinks about dieting, she automatically begins gaining weight, most likely by shoveling the wrong things into her mouth because she's thinking about food all the time.

Metabolism schmetabolism, people can affect their own metabolism by the amount of activity they choose. Gweneth strikes me as an active person, Oprah, not so much.

Saying "nothing with four legs" didn't strike me as moralistic, but rather just another way of separating in her own mind acceptable types of protein from unacceptable. It made perfect sense to me, and I'm speaking as a skinny person who frequently forgets to eat, that when she does sit down and eat, she doesn't think at all about dieting and proceeds to consume whatever she wants in whatever amount suites her, having already been careful in wanting the right things. A binge for Gweneth would be an antipasto to Oprah.

Fowl and cheese are not going to pile the weight on an active person, but breads, cakes, pasta and sugars will pack it on a sedentary person.

I'll never forget this bird who worked at the Fed when I was there, how she changed so rapidly after her marriage. She went from perky fun youthful girl to dowdy unhappy unpleasant frump within the span of several months, come to think of it, right after her marriage. Then became obsessed about food, talking about it incessantly. "I just came back from lunch and all I had was a salad," she announced when nobody even asked. But I couldn't help but notice that salad in the cafeteria due to it's size, sufficiently heavy to tip Fred Flinstone's car when set on the window at the drive-in, and the gallon of creamy ranch dressing glug glug glug glug glug glug glug glug glug glug, breathe, glug glug glug glug glug glug poured over the pile. Food enough to fuel me for two days.

Paltrow, this one-way communication is getting old. Are you bouncing my emails or what?

I swore, I swore I would be true, and honey, so did you. So why were you holding her hand? Is that the way we stand? Were you lying all the time? Was it just a game to you?

But I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you. You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha. Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to, Do you have to let it linger?

Oh, I thought the world of you. I thought nothing could go wrong, But I was wrong. I was wrong. If you, if you could get by, trying not to lie, Things wouldn't be so confused and I wouldn't feel so used, But you always really knew, I just wanna be with you.

But I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you. You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha. Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to, Do you have to let it linger?

And I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you. You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha. Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to, Do you have to let it linger?

You know I'm such a fool for you. You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha. Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to, Do you have to let it linger?

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs announced a set of new rules governing future Town Hall Meetings:

First, as part of the new stimulus bill, General Motors and Chrysler will alternate supplying a pair of energy efficient washers and dryers to the stage; these will showcase the Presidential promise to either save or create either 3.5 million or 4 million jobs.

Second, Ty Pennington will do a 5 minute audience warmup during which he may recruit volunteers to assist in the extreme makeover to follow. However, in the spirit of diversity and fairness, he must alternate with HGTV on who actually gets to build the new house.

Third, the responsibility for calibration of the Applause Meter will move from the National Bureau of Weights and Standards to the White House.

Fourth, the role of the starving student will rotate among McDonalds, Burger King, and Wendys. In-and-Out will not be eligible until 2010, pending congressional renewal of the forthcoming stimulus II bill. The role of the homeless mother will be determined by precinct vote. The role of out-of-work factory worker will not be filled for Town Halls in southern (non union) states.

Fifth, instead of the customary introduction of the president, the Town Hall meeting will open with “Come On Down!”

Secretary Gibbs continued “With these new rules, we can be assured that everyone attending can truly see how the new American Dream can be realized. President Bailey, oops, Obama, has given his promise that this will be a true bipartisan effort.”

Lying in my bed againAnd I cry cos youre not hereCrying in my head againAnd I know that its not clearPut your hands, put your handsInside my face and see that its just youBut its bad and its madAnd its making me sadBecause I cant be with you

Baby I cant be with you

Thinking back on how things wereAnd how we loved so wellI wanted to be the motherOf your childAnd now its just farewell

Put your hands in my handWell find another endAnd come with me,And my head, and my headOn anyones shoulderCause I cant be with you

Baby I cant be with you

Cause youre not here, youre not hereBaby I cant be with youCause youre not here, youre not hereAnd baby Im still in love with you

I can see that it won't be long You grow cold when you keep holding on You know you've changed and your words they lie That's something you can't deny I know there's something going on I know there's something going on I know it won't be long Won't be long before you're gone There's something going on There's something going on I know a good thing must come to an end But it's hard to take loosing a friend I know what you think and what's in your mind So darling don't pretend I know there's something going on

You're alone right now. That's OK, except your're standing in the snow under the streetlight across the street from her house. When the car pulls up in a little while, and she gets the door opened for her, and they both walk up to the front steps, they stop in the dim light, then a laugh, a hug, finally a lingering kiss ....

No sé túI dont know about youPero yo no dejo de pensarBut I cant stop thinkingNi un minuto me logro despojarNot for a minute can i forget De tus besos, tus abrazos,your hug and kissesDe lo bien que la pasamos la otra vez.How much fun we had the other time.

okay, I despise GP because I think she's an ugly woman who resembles an albino rabbit yet has convinced everyone she is attractive by pure empress has no clothes obnoxiousness..HOWEVER...

I know what she means here. If I try to diet, I become obsessed with food and put on 5 or 10 lbs blam. If I busy myself with other things it melts off. Same thing if I try to restrict. It's matter of mental focus - not in the sense of visualization, but in the sense of obsession. Are you obsessively thinking about food? You'll eat. Are you thinking about other things? You won't.

I haven't had time to read all of the comments and I'm not a big fan of Paltrow, but I have to say that some people just don't gain weight. And working out doesn't necessarily lead to muscles. I ride my bike all the time and I'm just thin. The other thing is that my eating adjusts to my schedule. If I'm not biking, I barely make it through the salad, eat half of the entree and have dessert. I have no idea of Paltrow's specifics, but I know that I get a little tired of the bulimia accusations. Not me personally, but I'm a guy, so maybe it's different.